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Section One' Pages 1 Io 116Pae1 o6 VOL. XXXIX MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1919. PRESIDENT TO ANNUL WAR-TIME PROHIBITION WHEN TREATY IS SIGNED Dry Lealedrs Ploinly Disturbed Over White Hease Announce ment of President's Decision. WILL NOT DELAY .TREATY Anti-Saloonists Say it Is Absured to - Suspect Effort to Defer Ratifi cation in Order to Save Prohibition Washington, Oct. '28.-The Senate pased the prohibition enforcement act over the President's veto today and1 made immediately effective machinery for preventing sale of beverages con-' taining more than one-half of 1 per' cent alcohol. The vote was 65 to 20, or eight more than the necessary two-thirds majority. While there was a wrangle over taking up the measure in place of the peace treaty, which had the right of way, there never was doubt as to how the Senate stood. It was overwhelm ingly "dry," like the House, which repassed the bill within three hours after the President had vetoed it. I Before Congress at 3:40 o'clock finally clinched enactment of the en forcement law, despite 'Presidential objection to linking wartime and con atitutional prohibition acts, there came fro mthe White House the an nouncement that the wartime law which was put into effect after the cessation of hostilities-would be an nulled the moment the Senate formhl ly ratified the German peace treaty. Leaders Disturbed. It was the most definite of all 'offi cial or semi-official statements bear 'ing on the wartime act. Prohibition leaders were plainly disturbed by the' news, for they had counted firmly upon the country reaching the effec- f tive date of constitutional proribi tion-January 16, 1920-without re opening the saloons. Despite the clamor set up by wet and dry forces over the White House pronouncement, Senate leaders said they would proceed with considera tion of the treaty as heretofore. Sen ators who have, taken an activo part in the prohibition campaign branded as unfair and absurd reports that they would delay the treaty simply to keep the liquor traffic from getting a foot hold in the comparatively short period remaining before the country will go dry for good. Formal denial was issued from headquarters of the Anti-Saloon League that its officers would take any part in any movement calculated to delay the treaty. League officers stuck to the opinion that it would be neces sary to first ratify the Austrian treaty before lifting the wartime pro hibition ban, which was said to have been the ruling of Attorney General Palmer, and they declared their posi tion was not altered by the fact that. Presidlent Wilson waCs prepared to cut through legal dloub~t and 'wipe out a law the necessity for which he believes to have passed. Department Ready. With today's action by the Senate the Department of Justice is ready to 1 deal with any offenders against the' dIrastic provisions of the new act. At best heretofore, prosecutions were] more or less haphazard, and ileces sarily so, it wvas said, because of the loosely dIrawn language of the act but; the new lawv gives ample means of breaking up the traffle. So drastic is the enfo'rcement act that a man for instance, may -be fined or put in jail for dlisplaymng a picture of a brewery, or a keg, but his right to store liquor in his own home for his own use stood up against all at tack in the committee andl both Houses of Congress. Warning wvent out tonight of dteal-4 era selling 2 6-4 per eni beer, with out apparent risk heretofore that the < new law fixed 1 1-2 per cent as the' I legal limit of alcoholic content. ( The roll call followvs: For overriding the veto: Republi-! cans-Ball, Capper, Colt, Cumminis, t Curtis, Fernald, Frelinghuyren, Gron.. na, Hale, Harding, Johnson, of Cali fornia; Jones, of Wasnington; Kellogg Kenyon, Keyes, Knox, Lenroot, Lodge( A McCormick, McCumber, McNary, t Moses, Nelson, Ne, Newberry, Norris, Page, Phipps, Poindexter, Sherman, I Smoot, Spencer, Sterling, Sutherland,,f Townsend, Wadsworth, Warren and i Watson-38. I DRUGGISTS HAD SUCCESSFUL MEETING The Druggist District Auxiliary No. Three, including Sumter, Claren ion, Lee and Williamsburg counties hield an enthusiastic meeting in the Court House here Tuesday night. While the majority of the druggists were from Sumter, practically every !ounty was represented with one or more druggists. There were four been present,, and Dr. DeLorme of Sumter, chairman of the association, alled order for business at 8:45 in I which the secretary, Dr. John Seibert, also of Sumter, 'read the minutes and by-laws of the Association. The prin yipal discussion of the evening, was n regard to the Sunday hours and Sunday laws. Dr. DeLorme said "you iardly ever find two towns with the Same hours and Sunday laws, but we lruggists catch the dickens anyway." The meeting adjourned at 10 o'clock, c when an invitation was given by 1 Drs. Stalnaker, Kellet and Crouch hree local druggists to proceed over o Dickson's Drug Store where they t were served with sandwiches, hot cho olate and coffee. The visitors left t anking and com nenting the Manning druggists for he hospitality shown them while c sere. t The next meeting will be held at Kingstree, S. C., but the date was not lecided on. TIME CHANGES The daylight stjving campaign came :o an end last Sunday morning, all ;ime pieces were supposed to be turn ?d back one hour and everything t noves with the time as usual. While , .here is only one time, by the time, pieces, people very often if asking about the time, "Is that new time or >d time." All the daylight that can t )e saved has been saved. The nights inve grown to be considerably longer than the day and people who get up At 6 o'clock now can get along without i light, while heretofore it was neces- t iary to use a light. The idea is that the old common :ime splits up the day better in wint 'r, while the statutory times gives nore daylight working hours in sum- i ner. - As a rule, the agricultural popula tion has not had much regard for the laylight saving law. The farmers ,enerally, are accustomed to use all the daylight they cap get at both ends f the day and they do not burn a reat deal of light anyway. About the nly use they have for the new time is o fill appointments for business in the towns. Take the people us' a whole, and a najority of them, probably, rather ike the idea of changing the time ' )ackward and forward an hour in the t spring and fall, so as to keel) the vorking part of the (lay balanced be :ween suns. ENCOURAGE IT Don't you want to know the grade )f your cotton? Isn't it a satisfac- t :ion to know the grade of ycur cot- i .on before you ,sell ? Would you be villing to sell anything else blindfold ,d ? Don't you want to know some hing about what you are doing when I ou sell your cotton ? Of course you t do: any business man wants to know. vell, don't be indifferent about having 'our cotton classed. Think about it. Encourage the farmers and your t eighbor to have their cotton graded. I [ave every bale of your own graded. Don't wait to see if this proposition will be successful. You know it will d )e a success. Opnositioti has turned to support c n other counties where the e are t lovernment cotton classers. Let's All Be Together. You will want a cotton gra<.er here & lext s'iison and the next so help to< nake tnis season a successful one ini I llarendon County. Think it over. Encourage It! Boost it!! Those having cotton to he graded f n lots, should come by and get tags t >efore samp)ling. HENRY McRAE. Gov't. Cotton Classer'. Classlig room in r'ear of Homev lank & Trust Company.r ----0 o iAYS PLO)T MAD)E TfO t KIDNAP EDSEL FORD~ n~ Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 28.-Statements n ia private detective that he had dlis- fl overedl a plot to kidnap Edsel Ford," on of Henry Ford, and 1hold him fr a 200,000 ransom, led to the arrest here oday of four men. - c Decmocrats--Ashurst, Bankhead, I ~hamberlain, Dial, Fletcher, Gore, h Jarris, Harrison, Henderson, Jones, h f New Mexico; Kendrick, Kirby, Mc- g Cllar, Myers, Nugent, Overman, f< )wen, Pomerene, Sheppard, Simmons, b !mith of Arizona; Smith of Georgia; ec iwanson, Tranmmell, Walsh, of Mon ana, Williams and Woleott--27. ti Total for 68. fi Against overruling veto: h Republicans - Borah, Brandegee a jaldefr, Edge, Fall, France, LaFellet- e e, McLean and Penrose--9. b) D'emocrats-Gay, Gerry, HIithcock, [ing;, Phelan, Randlsdell, Robinson, w Ihields, Thomas, Underwood and ,s Y'lsh, of Massachusetts-11I. Total te tMRG[NCY PLANS ARE KEP SECRE secretary Wilson Believes Miner May Be Shown in Making . . Reply. CONFERENCE OPENS TODAY .ewis and Associates Resent President Wilson's Statement That ' Coal Strike Would Be illegai. Washington, Oct. 28.--How to deal 'ith the soft coal strike in event the liners, ignoring President Wilson's omimand to stay on the job, walk out 'rida'" night, was definitely agreed pot. today at at two-hour meeting of he cabinet. The plan of action was not disclosed it it is known that the cabinet stood s one man for pl'otection of the rights ' the public, which would ,tiffer with he closing of the mines, in which rdinarily more than half a million ciembers of the United Mine Workers f America are employed. Secretary Lansing, who presided, rought word from the meeting that he situation was not hopeless. All ay the belief had grown that the in ernational executive board, at its Meeting tomorrow at Indianapolis, gould postpone the strike, at least, lope was expressed in some quarters hat the strike would lie called off by he men who had called it, but oflicials eclined to say whether this was ased upon information purporting tc onvey some idea as to the attitude of hle unions. )elay Thought Probable. Mr. Lansing would not say if any acts had been laid before the meet. ng to justify hope of averting the trike. Secretary of Labor Wilson familiml vith the way of miners through long ervice as an officer of their nationa rganization, said it might be severa lays before a decision was reached b he executive board at Indianapolis. "We stil lhave the function of & Iediator to perform," he said, in an. ouncing that no new strike develop. tents had been brought to his atten lon. Most oflicials had thought that Johr Lewis president of the United Mimn Vorkers, who had summoned his ful cale committee to the meeting to, norrow, would make immediate an Louncement of the .reply of his mier o President Wilson's letter. Accord. ng to the view held by Mr. Wilson owever, there may be no answer unti he very last moment. An eleventi our decision to postpone or cance he strike would not- be surprising, i vas said. But there was some (oubl ere as to whether word could be sent o the men in time to keep them at Vo rk. Moving Coal Quickly. The railroad administration, it was earned today, is putting forth every ffort to move the coal already mined o districts where present stocks are unning dangerously low. Meantime overnment agenits wvere taking a luick census and trying to find out ow long the stocks on hand miight ist. In the absence of an authorita-. ive statement, stock replorts were con1 icting, but it was said that union es mates of enough to supply dlemtands rir thirty udays was not far wvrong. "The-government is readly for t.he rorst, but it is hoping the worst wvill ot happen, firm in the belief that the tiners wvill respond patiriot icailly to ne President's appealI and keepi the linies running wvhile negotiating a ew wage agreement," was the sum ilng up tonight of a government of cial in touch with the situation. Everything depends on what is done t Indianapolis." "No Change in Situation." Indianapolis, Oct. 28.-With "no tange in the situation" reported( at nited Mine Workers of America Dadlquarter's, leaders of the big org'il ation of coal miners were preparing rimlyr tonight for a momentous coni rience tomorrowv of its executiv lard, dlistrict prlesidents andl scale >mmittee. John L. Lewis, acting 'president of ie organization, arrivedl late today om his home in 'Springfield, Ill. but id little to add~ tosentimients he has ready expressed concerning the gen 'al strike plannedl to take effect in tuminous mines Novemtier 1. The condemnation of the proopsed alk-out by President Wilson and -his aggestion that tribunal be apointed find a basis of settlement of the isagreement betwveen workers an I SOME NOTES OF THE TEACHER'S MEETING The first meeting of the Clarendon County Teacher's Association for this year was held at the Court House at 12 o'clock on last Saturday. Although the weather was threaten ing during the early morning hours, yet there was a good representative attendance from the various sections of the county. It being the first meeting there was no attempt made to have any specific program, but to enter into a re-or ganization and to discuss any matter that might properly come before the meeting. Devotional exercises were conducted by Rev. C. B. Smith of the Methodist church. The election of officers to serve for the year resulted as follows: Supt. T. E. Lide of the Summerton Graded and High School, President; W. O. Tatum, .Jr., Supt. of Pinewood High School; Vice-President; Mrs. J. K. Breedin of the Manning Graded and Hih School, Secretary. i he Government is having the Thrift Saving Stamp Campaign put on in the schools, anus the county superintendent presented that subject before the association. The subject. "The Teachers Preparation for next (lays work" was discusses. The State Teacher's Association coming on the latter part of Novem ber it was deemed advisable not to have any meeting of'the County As sociation for November and to meat again Saturday, December 13th at which time a full and interesting num ber of subjects will be discussed. Various matters of interest came up for dizcussion. The day's session w c elosed with a socal half hour wbl n coffee arid sanawiches were see.-vd. it is desired that this year be the best i.; the trusting of the county. SOUTHERN PORTERS ALSO WANT RAISE Washington, Oct. 28.--P'orters on the passenger trains of the principal lines of the South have pre sented a petition to the railroad ad ministration for a general increase in wages of not less than 65 per cent. The porters claim in the petition that ev cry class of trainment except porters have been granted increases and that their wages of less than $75 a month is not enough for them to live on. The railroad affected are the Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line Chesa peake and Ohio, Richntnd, Fredericks and Potomac and the Southern. employers with coal production con tinuing meanwhile, held no charms for the union leaders. Echoing the point made by Wil liam Green, secretary-treasurer of the organization, Mr. Lewis said that the national executive's idea that the need for war-time prohibition had passed because the emergency had ended, ex pressed exactly the union's attitude toward its war-time contract. "There is no further use for war time prohibition, according to the President," said Mr. Lewis, "Neither is there further use for the war-time Washington wage agreemetn. We therefore, resent the imputation that the strike is illegal." The suggestion that work be con tinued pending appointment and re port of an investigating tribunal was denominated by Mr. Lawis , measure .of dlelay. '''hat w~ouldI mean mionthis of wait ing wvhile meiin ignoranlt of inning Ipr'oblemns studliedl and' tried to seive them,'' he saidl. "Meanwile I the mnin ercis would be working under the pres cnt intolerable conditions." Other officials of the un ion agreedl heartily with this view. In additioni some of them pointed out that the opera'ftors wvould take advantage of the delay to wocrk the mines to capacity, pulling up r'eserve stocks and lahcing the union at a big d isadvanta~ge shoul the tribunal's efforts conme to naught. Direct negotiation with the ,mine owher's, howvevr, wvould lbe welcomied by the union. Vice President Lewis, Secretary Green and such members of the executive board as had reached here tonight were' unlanimous in dec elaring that they stood i'eady "as be before to negotiate a wage scale with out reservations." They emphlasized the last two wor'ds and char igedl that. the empjloyers would not negotiate except on conditions whic lhthe union men were poweirless which the union meni were powecrless to fulfill. Authoritative for'ecasts of' the ac tion to be taken tomorrowv were al most totally lackinig. There wvas a well defined impiression, howvever, that a reply to President Wilson would lie outlined at least, if not fully dIraftedl and adopted by the confereonce as ai whole. Much dloubt was in evidence as to the power of tihe executive board to postpone or otherwvise modify the sti'ike order and if that dloubt is not resolved the big walk-out will take plane Fridny midnig-ht. GOMIERS CHARGES CAPITALISTIC PLOT TO CRIPPLE LABOR Washington. Oct. 28.-Thousands of organized workers of the District of Columbia, who parade(- down Penn sylvania avenu'e tnight in honor of Samuel Gonipers, president of the American Federation of Labor ,later heard the veteran labor leader assert that "big business" definitely had de termined "to give labor, because of its growing strength, a blow between the eyes." The attitude of the United States Steel Corporation toward the steel workers' unions, he added, was only one manifestation on the part of industry. Mr. Gompers said that, while at the beginning of the stecl strike he considered it "untimely," since 1 learning of the plans of the steel companies, in common with all large employers, he had changed his mind, and now the steel strikers ,ad his utmost sympathy. The labor leader was introduced Ly Secretary of Labor Wilson as a man "who, above all, loves his fel low men." -- 0 ROPER ASKS All) IN ENIFORtCE MENT Washington, Oct. 28.--Law-abiding citizens, churches, civic organizations and welfare societies were summoned tonight by Commissioner Roper to aid the bureau of internal revenue in en forcing the prohibition enforcement law. Any flouting of the law, Mr. Roper declared, would bring itno disrepute the American form of government. . While the bureau is made the agen cy directing the enforcement of the measure, with the Department of Jus tice conducting prosecutions on evi dence obtained by the bureaus men, responsibility is not confined to fed eral officers, the comiissioner said. State, county and municipal oflicials are expected to do a full share in stopping and punishing any violations and the successful administration of the law, Mr. Roper said, will be meas ured largely by the manner in which these officials meet their requirements. ----0- -- TIIOUSANDS IFLEE FIROM BOI SII EVIK i Refugees Prom Ural Mountain Dis tricts Pack Box Cars. Irkutsk, Siberia, Oct. 5.---(Corre spondence o fthe Associated Press.) Ten thousand refugees from the Ural mountain districts of European Rus sin and Siberia have for weeks tilled the yards of' lrkutsk with their rail way ears. Forced to flee from their homes in Pern, Ekaterinburg. 'l'umen, l Creliabinsk, Ufa, Petropavlosk, Kur gan, BartunI and other cities of West-. ern Siberia, because of the menace of the Bolsheviki, they took refuge in I the railway boxcars provided by the < Omsk government and started east- I ward. Irkutsk, midway between Omsk and Vladivostok, has felt the full im-. I pact of the enormous tide of re fugees. T housandi~s have been sent on (east - warid hut they still remain in and airound this (district-an extraordinary number of people who have no homes L ut boxcars or hovels somewhere along the ia il road Iiine. A week ago it was estimaitedl by an, oflicer of the A mericain rail road corps, I which is attenmpting t o rehabilitate the tinans- Siberian service, that not fewer than :35,000 cars of' refugees were amassedl in and aroud~ Omsk. Traini a fte t ra in rolled in from the westwardl and for sonie time it. was virtually a blockade at Omask before the trucks could be clearea andl some of the hundreds o ft rains sent on east. WIIL NOTl WALK OUT Dl)JRNG FAIRt WEEK C'olunjbia, Oct. 28.-T'lhere will be no h nio strike of the electrical wvorkersv onnectedl with the Columbia Railway '1 Gas and1( Electric Company here dur1-a ing faiir week, according to Thomas e IL. Cooper, of Columbia, president of r Local 382 International Brotherhood ni f Electrical Woirkers. IHowever, Mr. Cooper said that if u Lhe wyorkers (do not receive an increaselS n the wanges scale as dlemand(edl from a he local company they probably will I ro out on a strike on Wednesdlay of ti iext week. The electrical wvorkers do- g mlandled a 10 per cent increase over, ti heir present wage scale. The majoir- it ly of the men, said Mr. Cooper, r'e- 6 ~eicn 50 ntiann hour LAKE WAVES CLAIM FOURTEEN VICTIMS When Passenger Steamer Muskegon Is Dashed to Pieces. 'SIX OR MORIE ARE MISSING 'ragic Fate Follows Vessel in MAs kegon Harbor-Heroic Behavior Noted. Muskegon, Mich., Oct. 28.-With ourteen known dead and six or more uissing, only time can bring an accu 'ate count of the toll of the great was which early this morning bodily ifted the Crosby passenger steamer iluskegon, formerly the City of Hol and, and smashed her to pieces on he piers at the entrance to Muskegon iarbor. The list of dead is being idled to almost hourly. The steamer, a side-wheeler bound 'rom Milwaukee, after outriding a light of gale, made for the harbor in he early morning darkness, but it is ;aid by Capt. Edwin Miller to have truck the bar at the entrance. The vheel paddles jammed in the sand, hecking headway, and the great; omhers threw the ship bout and furled her onto the nier. 'T'here he hung momentarily pounding into vreckage, and then slipped off into he leep channel, going down in fifty 'eet of water. The vess<. lie.; a storm orn tangle of steel rlnd splintered oo(, effectually blocking the harh-I ntrance. Guided by Single Light. Fift ycf the seventy-two passengers (ndl crew, guided to snfety by a sin die flashing in the hands of a coast uard, were tonight known to have >een saved from the vessel. It was eared several were caught between leeks. Survivors most of whom es. -aped only in their night clothing, wvere being cared for by the Red ross, while in the city morgues lie the bodies recovered. Giaphic stories >f terror, sutffering and heroism w old by survivors and hte bravery of apt. Edwin Miller and his dliters nd141 crew, who renain ed at their posts o the last, was recounted. Capt. il. er, sensing disaster as the vessel % ;s Iriv en toward the pier, ordered 1l o leap for their lives, andi the tin 1,l .wed sea rule, "women first. e a ollowed. Only four women, one o vhom was employed on the boat, w r on ight known to have been lost. 'T'he women, fearing to venture (e.\( he rail, were bravely led by .; f"red I. Beer'man, of luskegon, v. h eapel from the ship. Others jum .d ii were handed down ropes by r. iassengerls and c(ew. Captain Ia rd Stricken. Capt. Miller hard stricken by the Iisaster and loss of lives, declared : w :ndertow swung his ship after :m truck the bar. "I told the e:ois toys to wake the passengers ,( -new and1i1 ordered all over the ra'" 1e said. "'T'hose who moved quiey Vere saved. The ones who held b" r1, ost their lives." Tlo 1H. ,J. I iaknhorsky, a4 coast ge ''.iny of' those saved owve the ir Iis ecordl'ling t ( surkv ivors. ApproI4ach. el('Osely as possible to the suspe' j d 'teamer, Kaknborsky, while otl f the coa st gunard strnuggled to t een and women fro mthe tantdle a' vrec'kage held a flashlIigh t 41ire 1( he' way to safety. IE 'mlTO ('ALIL ON lilN Em Washington, Oct. 28.- -Priesident W ILee and t he gene(ral 1com01mitte < f he Brotherhood ofI Italiiway TIra inr, vill coni~ferl tomiorrow with IiIirecer ;enieral Iliines on the unlionis w:... cal(e demands whlichI are about to lec'ided. Mr i. Ilin es has hail the ri 'mmiiendiations of the board of railev w vages bef'oire himii foi' t'wo weed lilt wvhe'ther lie has been able n each a decision in the ruish oif we ic ident t o the thrent ened coal str ci ais 10lnot bei r'evealed., It was agrad heno thle demands wvere piesenitedl I uily that the oflicials oif the railr dmiinist ration and1( the uniion wot21 onifer' before the award( was mih uIbIic, whiich accounts for t omorro 'V le'etinig, aion's req'iuest foir a general wage i rease wvill be irefused. Mr'. IIine ll(5vl et On the demiands inmlependent ly of resident WVilson, it was learned u ioi'itantively today, but the Pr'esidena eneral policy laid dowvn at the tieo io shopmien werue dIenied' a general cr'ease but given an adjustment of equalities -:omipared with othei' union embers, wll govern his deciiionn